alt Hacker News> I used to do it like that as well, but clients want a mobile app and management decided to give them a PWA
I'm quite surprised to hear this is a common thing. Besides myself, I don't know a single person who has ever installed a PWA. For people in tech, despite knowing they exist. For people outside tech, they don't know they exist in the first place.
Does management actually have any PWAs installed themselves?
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pjmlp • 05/04/2025
For me the whole worker setup filtering requests and storing results on local storage, looks like gimmicks.
They should have designed it as a proper native experience.
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People outside tech just get installation instructions and do not care if it’s app store or something else. This is how sanctioned Russian banks continue to serve their customers via apps, when they cannot get into app store. The number of users of PWA is probably on the scale of millions.